blindness
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He said quick treatment was essential to increase the chances of survival and to avoid life-changing disabilities, such as loss of limbs, blindness and brain injury.
From BBC
She and Basil Petrou developed a financial instrument designed to attract investors to the kind of promising, early-stage medical research on blindness that traditionally fails to gather enough funding to proceed to FDA trials.
Over time, it can lead to serious complications, including nerve damage, blindness, coma, and even death.
From Science Daily
The effort to be identity-blind, he writes, can “cause a certain blindness: not seeing the conditions of life that people deal with because they have an identity.”
Dragging the incapacitated along on sledges, the rescuers struggled back to the Advance, enduring snow blindness and frostbite.
From Literature
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